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ch-qe so to offs i from himself as to convert - expland- . von into ins.,Jt ; it was advano;d not only with 'wit proof, and against proof; but again4t _ all col oor of probability. It would • scarcely be ad vanced tinder any convjaion 'that it was fleets a iry to the cans- which Mr. Jackson was to main tain ; for his Majesty's Government had disavowed Mr. Erskitie's arran;;ement, according to Mr. Jack son's,pwn representation, without any reference to the knowledge which this accusation imputed to the Government of the United States ; and it need not be stated that no allusion whatever was made to ii by Mr. Secretary Canning, in thine informal commu nications to pie which Mr. Jackson has mentioned. It not moreover to be expected that, in the ap parent state of Mr. Jackson's powets, and in the actual posture of his negotiation, he would seek to to irritate - % here he could not arrange, and sharpen disappointment by studied and unprovoked digioty. The course which the Government of the United States adopted on this painful occasion, was such as at once demonstrated a sincere respea for the public churacter with which Mr. Jackson was invested, and -a due sense of its own dignity. Mr. Jackson's con ducl bad left a feeble hope that further intercourse With hiin, unprodotlive of good as it must be, might still . be reconcilable with the honour of the Ame rican Government. A fair opportunity was accord ingly presented. to him of making it so, by Mr. Smith's letter of the Ist of November, of which I beg leave to loses t the concluding paragraph : " I abStain, Sir, from making any particular ani madversions on several irrelevant and improper allu sions in your letter, not at all comporting with the professed disposition to adjust in an amicable manner the ditfcrecees unhappily subsisting between the two countries. gut it would be improper to conclude the fe - w observations, to which I purposely limit myself, without adverting to your repetition of a language, implying a knowledge, on the part of this Government, that the instruCiions of your predeces sor did not authorize the arrangement formed by him. After the explicit and peremptory asseve:ation, that-this Government had no such knowledge, and that with such knowledge, no such arrangement would have been entered into, the view which you again presented,of the subje&, makes It my duty to apprize you, that such insinuations are inad missible in the intercourse of a Foreign Minister with a Government that understands what it owes to itself." Whatever was the sense in which Mr. Jackson had used the expression to which the American Go vernment took exception, he was now aware of the sense in which they were understood; and, conse quently, was called upon, if he had been misappre hended, to say so. His expressions conveyed an in jurious meaning, supported moreover by the con text ; and the notice taken of them had not ex ceeded the bounds of just admonition. To have explained away even an imaginary affront, would have been no degradation ; but when an occasion was thus offc•red to qualify real and severe itnputa tions upon the Government to which he was accre dited, it could scarcely be otherwise than a duty to take immediate advantage of it. • Such, however, was xot. Mr. Jackson's opi nion. Ile preferred answering the appeal, which .had been made to him, by reiterating with aggrava tions the offensive insinuation. He says, in the last paragraph of his letter of the 4th of November, to Mr. Sinilll—` You will and, that, in my correspon dence with you, I have carefully avoided drawing conclusions, that did not necessarify follow from the premises advanced by_me ; and least of all shoUld I think of uttering an- insinuation, where I was un able to substantiate a fad. To facts, such as I have become acquainted with them, I have scrupulously adhered. In so doing I 'must continue, whenever. the good faith of his Majesty's Government is called in . question, to vindicate its honour and dignity, in the manner that appars to the best calculated for that purpose.' " To this, my Lord, there could be but one'reply. Oflicial intercourse with Mr. Jackson could - no longer be productive of any effeCts that were tiots ranter to be avoided than desired.; and it was plainly impossible that it should continue. He was, there fore, informed by Mr. Smith, in a letter of the sth of _November, which recapitulated that inducement to this unavoidable step, that no further communi cations would be.yeceived from him; that the ne cessity of this determination would, without delay, be made known to his Government ; and that, in the mean time, a ready attention would be given to any communication affeding the interests of the two nations through any other channel that might be substituted. " The President has been plegsed to direct; that I 'should inake known this ffecessity to his Majesty's Government, and at the same time request that Mr. Jackson be recalled. And I am particularly in structed to do this in a Manner that will leave no dOubt of the undiminished desire of the United States to unite in all the means the best calculated w establish the relations of the two countries on the solid foundations of justice, of friendship, and of mutual interest. lam further particularly instruct ed, my Lord, to make his Majesty's Goverm . oent sensible, that, in requiring the recall of Mr. Jack snit, tine United States wish not to be understood as in any degree obstructing communications which_ may lead to a friendly accommodation, but, that on the contrary, they sincerelyetain the desire, which they have'constantly profeSsed, to facilitate so happy an event, and that nothing will be more agreeable to them than to find the Minister, who has rendered himself so justly obnoxious, replaced by another, who, With a different character, may carry with all the authorities and instructions requisite for the complete sticcess of his mission, or, if the at tainment .of this obje& through my agency should ht- considered more expeditious, or otherwise pre ferable, that it will be &course entirely satislaaory to the United States. _ _ _ • " These instrudions, Which. I lay before your Lordship without disguise, require no comment. " Beftire I conclude this letter, it may be proper very hotly to advert to two communications, re -4:-eived by Mr. Secretary Smith trom Mr. Oakley, tier the correspondence with Mr. Jackson had eased. 1:11:t firm of these communications (of which I able to ascertain the date) requested a docu. PR IC E CI I' YESTE Bank Stock, Navy 5 per Cent. shut I risk y per Cent. 4 per tent. 84 per Cent. iced. - 69t 3 rer ent. Cons. shut. Itmlk Ann. LONDC/ISI; rrinted by RICHARD HARRIS, or N 0,,, MArtlett.court, Bow-street; and Published by WILLIAM A, i<Ml(.; L SLR] PI'S, Suuth Mcitmt street, I.; ro , venor fquve, At the -Svs , UPptcs, No, Strand, where Advertisements, Orders for the PcPer, Letters for the Editor, bre. (pwl-toia), must ty.• addrcss;?d, rnent, having the-cfreet of a special•pas.pirt or safe guard, for Mr. fackson and his - tamilx, during their, further stay in, the United States.' Thii'application' was regarded as somewhat singular-; but the.doci-. went, of ..which the necessity was not perceived, was nevertheleSs furnished. The reasons assigned for the application excited some ,surprise. I have troubled your Lordship, in conversation, with a - few remarks., from my instpOtions, 'upon, one of those reasons, which 1 will 'dike the liberty to repeat.— The paper id question states, that Mr. Jackson had already been once .nkt2st grossly insulted by the inhabitants of Hampton, in the unprovoked lan guage of abuse held ,by them to several Officers bearing the King's ,uniform ; whop these Officers were themselves violently assaulted and -put in im minent danger.' . . " I an given to understand, my Lord; that the insult here alluded to was for the first time brought under the notice of the American Government by this paper -; that it had, indeed, been, among the rumours of the day, that some unbecorriing scene had taken place at Hampton or Norfolk, between some Officers belot4::ug to the Africaine frigate and some of the inhabitants, and that it took its rise in the indiscretion of the former; that no at.- tention to the circumstance having been called for, and no inquiry having been made, the truth of the case is unknown ; but that it was never supposed that Mr. Jackson himself, who was on board the frigate, had been - personally insulted ; nbr is it' yet understood in what way he supposes that he was so. I am authorised to add, that any complaint' or re presentation on the . subjea would instantly have received every proper attention. " The other communications (of which the sub-: stance was soon afterwards published to the Ame rican people, in the form of a circular letter 'from Mr. Jackson to the British Consul in the United States) seems to have been intended .as a justifica tion of his condua in that part of his correspon dence, which had given umbrage to the American Government. This paper (bearing date the 13th of November) is not very explicit ; but it would appear to be calculated to give rather a new form to the statements which Mr. Jackson, had suffered the Government of - the United States to view in another light, until it had no choice but to at upon the obvious and natural interpretation of them, sanc tioned by himself. • " It was never objeAed to Mr. Jackson (as this paper seems to suggest) that he had stated, that the three propositions in Mr. Erskine's original instruaions were submitted to Mr. Smith by that Gentleman ; or that he had stated it as made known to him by Mr. Canning, that the instruaion to Mr. Erskine, containing those three conditions, was the only one froth which his authority was derived for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related. " The objection was, that be had ascribed to the American Goverment a knowledge that the propo.:. sitions submitted to its consideration by Mr. Er skine, were indihpensable conditions; and that 'he did so, even after that knowledge had been dis tinetly disclaimed and he had been, made to per eeiveihat a repetition of the allegation could not be suffered. , I willing . leave your Lordship to judge, whether Mr. Jackson's correspondence will bear any other construction than it in fata received; and whether, supposing it to have been erroneously con strued, his letter of the 4th of November should not. have corre&ed the mistake,, instead of confirm ing and establishing it. - " As an explanation, this paper was even worse than nothing. It had not the appearance of an at tempt to rectify misapprehension. It sought to put the American Government in the wrong, by assum ing that what had given so much ambrage ought not to have given any. It imported reproach; rather than explanation. It kept out of sight the real offence, and, intro ducing a new and sufficient one in its place, seemed to disclose no other wish than to withdraw from the Government of the. United States the ground upon which it had proceeded. Its apparent pur pose, in a word, was to fix a charge of injustice upon the past, not to produce a beneficial eiledt upon the future. In this view, and in this only, it was perfectly consistent that it should announce Mr. Jackson's determination. to retire .to - New- York. , ‘i The time when this . papee was presented will not have escaped your Lordship's observations. It followed the demand already made, of a safeguard for Mr. Jackson, his family, and the Gentlemen attached to his misssion ;' a demand which cannot be regarded, especially if we look to theinducements to which it was referred, as either conciliatory or rcspealful. It followed too, the letter of the 4th of November, which, had explanation been intended, ought undoubtedly to have contained it, but which, in lieu of it, contained flesh . matter s of provocation. It was itself followed by the publication of its own substance in another garb. On the very day of its date, when Mr. Jackson, if he meant it as an ex planation, could not be justified in concluding that it would not be satisladory, it was moulded by him into a circular addrsss to which I have before al luded ; and immediate steps appear to have been taken to give to it in that shape, the utmost pub licity. I have no, wish, my Lord, to make rny strong remarks upon that proceeding. It will be admitted that it was a great iegularity ; and that it Mr. Jackson bad been particularly anxious to close every avenue to reconciliation between the American Government and himself, he could not have fallen upon a better expedient. " I have now only to add, my Lord, the expres sions of my most ardent wish, that out of the inci dent which has produced this letter, an occasion may be made -to arise, which, improved as it ought to be, and I trust will be, by our respective Govern ments, may conduCt them to cordial and lasting friendship. Thus to endeavour to bring good out of evil, would be worthy of the rulers of two na tions that are only in their natural position when they are engaged in offices of mutual kindness, and • largely contributing to the prosperity and happiness of each other. " I' have the honour to be, with the highest con sideration, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " WM. PINCKNEY." " Moat Noble the Marquis Wellesley, &C. &c. ..:•, ; wt. „. - 4 ' . . IROM ITHE• NATIONAt. ;NTELLIGIA4CP.It''. , . 7 . . ..',., ".. It-will.be learnt with surprise and regret, , per , hap. woistfonger emotions ; that these documents, [ailtich,aiSpeated lathe 'airrru'ra of yesterd,ey], dui plicates ' of those trensmitted - by the John, Adams':, comprise 'the whole of 'the official correspondence between our Moister and the British Government ; touching the matter to which. they relate. -•- . . ' " We-have been induced from various sources to expect, for some time past, thiat..Mr. Jackson wou'ld be recalled, and his place supplied by &Minister of rank and - talents. This . expectation has derived. strength; not only from circumstances which we • have heretofore stated, but ' froM declaration'S made on the floor of Parliament, from the language Of the British prints, aad from the impression that exists in England, and which is evidently encouraged by the Miuktry, that the negociations in relation to Ame rican affair's were progreSsing in the most sinkable manner. , Even in our last paper we published an extract of a letter from an influential Member of the British Parliament, congratulating his correspondent c, on the generally received opinion of dispatches having gone forth in the frigate 4dams, that an amicable outline fur ai negociation tretvteen , the' American Minister and the Premier had been ad justed.' - " A reference to the extract of Mr. Pinckney's letter to. Mr. Smith, of the 21st of March, • will 1 shew, that, alter fully explaining to the Marquis of . Wellesley the groundS on which tie was instroeted I to request the recall of Mr. Jackson, he . 4 left him, (to. use his own language), with a persuasion that we should have no cause to be dissatisfied with the final course of his Governthent on the subject of . their conference.' This conversation, it was agreed by both, could only be introductory to a more for mal proceeding ; and Mr. •Pinckney, Ma enseqience. - of this understanding,..presented the official ietter of the 2d JantlAiy; a letter remarkable o),re:tor its candour and forbearance, .than for the dtgnified mo-- .deration of its language. 'l'o this letter, no dombt, after the oral communications which had taken place on the subject, Mr. Pthekney was in aly •expeeta- ,-' Lion of a reply, comporting with. the declarations, . confidently, made to WM in conversation.. This re, ply, however, was mit received until upwards of two months after the delivery of the letter to which it is an- answer; and when received, so far from jUlfilling the expeautions which were encouraged, speaks a language totally incompatible with the ainim. cable dispositions so lavishly professed. , "- Whether we consider the Letter of Marquis Wellesley in connection with his previous declara tions,- or view, it as the act of the British Govern . ment, 'it is equally a source of unpleasant feelings: " Instead of a prompt recall of Mr. Jackson, we are met with an assurauce that his Majesty has . ' been pleased to direct the return of Mr. Jackson to England.' And, lest the American Government • should infer that this direction to return proceeded from a conviction of the impropriety of his conduct, it is distinctly stated that no displeasure is expressed at his condua ; and his-zeal, ability, and so forth, are highly applauded. " Instead of another Minister being sent out, as was promised, we are told that a sort of Charge des Affaires; is to be appointed to ' carry on the ordinary, intercourse.' Not only do we hear nothing Of any Minister sent out, of authority given for the put poSe of accounting for the disavoWal of the arrange ment with Mr. Erskine, but we are expresSly given to understand that the person to whom Mr, Jackson is to deliver over the charge of his Majesty's afThirs in America, is only to ' carry on the ordinary in tercourse between the two Governments.' " After what precedes it, we feel the- less sur prised at that passage of the letter which assures us, as an additional testimony of his Majesty's friendly disposition, that he is ready to receive any commu nication which the Government oldie United States may 'think proper to make ! - It was at the outset objected to entering into negociation with Mr. Jack son, before his insulting conduct rendered a suspen sion of intercotise with him necessary, that after the disavowal of an arrangement, entered into with an authorised agent of the British . Government, and executed with good faith on the part of the United States, he offered no explanation on the causes of it. He too informed our Government that he was authorised to 4 receive and discdss propositions,' after declaring that he had no proposition to make on the subject of the Orders in Council, becauSe the ' Governme,tat of the United States had already mani fested its repugnance to the, three conditions 'con tained in the dispatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine. Mr. Jackson was informed - that an - ex planation of the disavowal was expected, and re plied, that he was not authorised to make such e - planation, but was ready to receive and discuss pro positions. Mr. Jackson is direCted' to return ; no Minister _is sent out with ample powers to Dego elate, as was to have been expeCted ; but as a proof • of his . Majesty's , friendly 'disposition, we are pre sented with the same declaration, by the Govern ment of Great Britain, that it ia ready ' to receive any communication,' &c. as was made in this city by its Ministers last October. " No explanation is given of the disavowal ; it is not mentioned ; it is considered by the Marquis, perhaps, as leading to ' a discussion which mi g ht ob .struCt the renewal of amicable intercourse between the two countries.' Meanwhile the outrage on the Chesapeake remains not only wholly unatoned, but, after the. refusal to carry into effect one equitaole agreement on the subject, we arc told for our con solation, that the British GovermAent is ready to 'receive any communication on that or any other subjeee—that is, that the party injured may make oilers of negociation l _ " Without enumerating particularly the various causes of complaint the United States have against the conduCt of the British Governmeet, among which is the continuance, in its full extent, of the impressment of our citizens, on which subject also ' the British Government is no doubt ready to receive propositions, we will dismiss this letter, after slightly noticing the very extraordinary pas sage which intimates that a formal complaint of the conduct of Mr. Jackson should have been made to his Government prior to a suspension of correspondence with him. This remark might have been more applicable, had Mr. Jackson been order ed out of the country, which course would pr'obably have been pursued by any Government less charm:- teriserliy Moderation than that of the UnitedStocs. Bit a milder course was pursued 5 - intercourse with was suspended, and. his recal reqU e st e d mao net the niost decorous. On" this point it is unne cessary to refer to the law of nations ; common sense, as well as the usage of nations, point out the course pursued as, the only on! proper under the cir cumstances. The; AMerican Government bad no option but to have endured his mints; to hive re ceiYed insults calmly. in the face of the world,. and to have. con I inued the correspondence wit h. Intu his Majesty's opinion on the Matter was. learnt, (which course the Marquis intimates shauld hav been taken) ; or, by at once refusing to receive.farl: 4 ther.commtinications from him, to she that such conduct could not be endured by a Government which understood what was diet° itself. " On taking into consideration th e . diff erenc e between the language of the British Minister at' different times, the question naturally presents it self—To what cause is this change of sentiment attributable. • " Wh i en the first•conference on the subjea. took' place, and the Marquis prpressed his opinion of the, propriety of *ending out another Minister,acconipa.; nied by sentitnents in the highest degree conciliatory, hC .had laefote him , . the doqumenta published; at .the opening of the Session of Congress, together, with the President's Message ; t lie resolution which origi- t nated in the Senate,-with the' discussion 'and prompt decision on it in that boiy, where Mr. Jackson met h with no avowed defenders ;And al..cr the-b. 41 (which ; passed that bo.dy) to i ptvent the, abuse of the privi lege~ and ititinu .itteS enjoyed by Foreign Ministers within the UpitedStai-es. But when, aftervvaiting* sufficient time to receive further intelligence nn. the subject, he found a profr4t3eo and ahnost unexampled • distuSsion of three weeks had - taken place ont hat , re solution in the House of ItepreSentative4 wrien Ile found the columns of American prints .occupied for weeks ix oh debates on the sobtect ; when fro found Mr. Jackson's conduct' ii - otonly palliated and excused, but warmly defended on the floor 61 . Con gres,,, and that of -di • American G more ) strongly reprobated, ys tone. is chtnged, and lie ; deems it safe and politic to refrain from adtnis - sions; which 'had bzen so strenuously resisted by the advocates of his•Govertituent in this co, , ntry. How.' ever preyiously disposed, after receiving this ttation, he became in a manner bound not to de sea those in this country who had tikeit . gt oundr ud' maintained doarines which he • hiinself had never dreamt of; for, iu his first conversation with -Nir- Pitfekney, he explicitly admitted that Mr. Jacksun was - in the wrong. ‘-‘ Thus are we, once more, indebted to the violent opposition ola class of our citizens to their ciliNGO vernment, for an abortion of hopes, rationally tained, of steps that might - have led to a cotdiat a » ity with the British Government. We will no; go so 1, , r as to say that is certain ; but we do lam) that it IS highly probable, that but for such oppcsit ion, the British Government would have unqualifiedly re called Mr. Jackson, and have promptly substitute * , • a successor .of rank and talents, thus furotsitios .: : another opportunity of: healing -tire existing d•fie - ,' rences between the two nations. What 11;e - of this embroiled state of things may be, "We pretend not to predict.; but of this we are confident, t.ittt discerning people, will tfscribe to their, true author*. their existing wrongs, as well as those which m 4 be yet in store lot' theiw." - • ,By recent Act of Parliatnent,the Courts are elw' powered to trinsPort for, life all per Sons convicted -- of picking pockets . . The Ridges, it is'said, are DOW determined to go to-the utmost extent of the i'''`c f % in consequence of. the very seriou s and, dari ll f depredations committed by ,this dez , ciiption of or" fenders.' . A young man, .butler ,to Mr. Gould,: of CO } " was bit im the thumb about five or six weeks ago 01 ei . , a eat; of which he took no . notice,-until sips of , hydrophobia had shown them,elves in the strange' degree within the last week; which, after balTh' the -utmost skill of the physician s , ca u se d his 11L!at within these few. days. The Chancellor of the Exthequer had an 'tut' ) view' on Saturday with the L o rd Ch ance ll or anB t' h4 Master of the lolls. It is intend e d t o a rr ange so flli l measure during the prorogation, which will 5 milted to Parliament• when it nex t meets , for the, purpose, of rendering the duties of th e L or d Cl? n r • celler less burthensunie and laboriotis, by ba v , 111 „• the Bahliropt .Appeals disposed by s - bme Judge, which at' present occupy so hrge a Por t ' ° 3 ( °Paw time of his Lordship. Th e .p u blic will V I , with pleasure of such an arrangem en t, a s the r fni rt tiiilicity of business that . colites before the Coil of Chancery is such, that m u ch must b e coastal'y in arrear. . • oriir tvrrru • ORAVISIND, JUNE 26. 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